On 10/04/2010 01:22 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Rui Nuno Capela <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/03/2010 08:43 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: >>> http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-dialogs-meego.png >>> http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-meego.png >> ... >> please, try another qt theme just for piece of mind, for instance (my >> all-time preferred one) qtractor -style plastique > > Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for -- a simple way to switch > to a more reasonable-looking style. > Is there a way to set this style in ~/.config/rncbc.org/Qtractor.conf > , or a global variable I can set to effect this change for certain > programs without affecting "stock meego" apps? I ended up modifying > /usr/local/share/applications/qtractor.desktop to get this style on a > system-wide basis: > Exec=/usr/local/bin/qtractor -style plastique. >
there's the global setting by use of qtconfig but maybe that's not what you want, 'coz that will affect _all_ qt4 apps > Some of the strange effects I was seeing prior -- such as forcing all > application level windows launched from qtractor/qjackctl to a > different meego screen -- stopped happening once I setup smaller > fonts, or perhaps after enabling "Keep child windows always on top" in > options. > > Here's the new screenshots, playing something that causes xruns in > ZynAddSubFx due to too much MIDI happening, and a too-complex voice. > Something I recorded on the desktop and played back on the netbook > just to see if it could keep up. Picking a simpler voice still gives > Xruns but it's mostly inaudible: > > http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-plastique-style-meego.png > http://nielsmayer.com/meego/qtractor-dialogs-plastique-style-meego.png > > (seems like the easy solution for doing audio on meego is to wait for > Fedora 14, which will support the Meego desktop and Netbooks as a > "default configuration" ( > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fedora-14-beta-released-today-aimed-tablet-op > ) and on which I'd expect the upcoming F14 PlanetCCRMA realtime kernel > will run and allow this underpowered platform to perform synthesis > reliably (?). Note that there's no such problems if I stick to just > MIDI via USB-connected MIDI converters talking to old-fashioned MIDI > synths and samplers; Regarding Audio Xruns in Jack, I haven't checked > to see whether a external USB audio interface has better or worse > performance, compared to onboard "Intel" sound w/ Realtek ALC272 > codec...) > afaict, zynaddsubfx's jack implementation is infamously prone to xruns or so i've been told, so maybe there's no big chance in improving the situation by changing audio interfaces cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
